Saturday Morning Workshops

*Indicates an extended workshop (2 hours long)

Are YOU Trending as a Youth Leader?

The 4-H Movement is here and ready to help YOU. Join us for this energy-filled, interactive session jam-packed with leading, laughing, and learning as we scroll through the Movement values and discover new tools to help YOU gain a following. At the end of this session, we will determine, “ Is Your Influence Trending?”

Wisconsin 4-H Movement Team

Breaking the Ice

This will be a session about how to teach different icebreakers. Participants will play icebreaker games, get tips for facilitating icebreakers, and brainstorm new ideas.

Burke Sprangers, WLC Member

Cloverbuds/Explorers: A Year's Worth of Interactive Learning and FUN!*

Come and enjoy a demo of 12 months of hands-on learning and fun activities to do with your youngest learners! You will see a live demo of each month's featured activity and receive a link to a website where you can access pictures and material lists for an entire year of fun!

Michelle Turbin-Hartjes, Wood County Adult Volunteer; Adelena Hartjes, Holten Hartjes, Abrietta Hartjes, Wood County Youth Leaders

College Bound Clovers: Preparing for Education after High School*

Did you know that participating in 4-H is already setting you up for success post high school? In this session, members of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Office of Admissions & Recruitment and the Office of Student Financial Aid will cover two of the most important considerations when thinking about making your dreams of higher education a reality: academic and financial preparation.

This session will:

Explore how how your focus on head, heart, hands, and health will contribute to your success post high school
Help you understand different higher education pathways
Provide tips for making academic and extracurricular decisions now that will prepare you for your post-high school education
Demystify costs of attending college, and tips and tricks for navigating the funding process
Equip you with resources and questions to ask as you're exploring your next educational journey

This session is most relevant and timely for high schoolers, but will be great for younger students & families to plan ahead.

Jessica Arnold, Admissions Counselor & Mount Horeb 4-H Club Alum; Kari Temkin, Financial Aid Outreach Coordinator

Discover Making: Creating with Makerspace & Glowforge

Makerspaces are great places that bring people together to learn, create, and share. They're great spaces for 4-H'ers to discover new tools and techniques, experiment with creativity, and learn by doing!

Join us in the McMillan Memorial Library's new Makerspace and discover opportunities that makerspaces offer creative youth and adults alike! You'll walk away with cool creations and inspiration to seek out your own local makerspaces.

Is Curriculum Your Jam?

Jam with us! Youth leaders, adults, and staff are looking for great curriculum to use with young people. Curriculum Jams are a way to bring different perspectives in to help choose the best curriculum on a topic - together. Find out more about Curriculum Jams, how to get involved, and what we're learning.

Monica Lobenstein, Learning Resource Specialist; Joanna Skluzacek, STEM Specialist

Supporting Youth Mental Health*

Build skills to support youth mental health. Adults who volunteer with young people, care about young people. One way to show we care is to give help and support when someone is feeling down. That’s what the Supporting Youth Mental Health for Volunteers Training—Supporting YMH, for short—is all about: knowing how to support youth when they’re down, whether it’s simply a bad day or it’s more than that.

Supporting YMH has two parts:

1-hour online training
2-hour live training—offered virtually or in-person

Megan Suehring, Shawano County 4-H Educator & Holly Luerssen, Marathon County 4-H Educator

Tamales and Tips for Working with Latinx Communities*

Join Jasmine and Olga in making tamales and discuss different tips when working with Latinx communities. We will make tamales de dulce (sweet) and tamales de rajas (peppers and cheese).

Jasmine Carbajal, Wood County 4-H Educator; Olga Meza, Hmong & Hispanic Communication Network

Unwind & Relax with Yoga

Learn ways of calming your body and mind through breathing and gentle stretching. Take some time for yourself to unwind and take what you learn back to your 4-H club. No mats will be needed-we will do some chair yoga and also on the floor.

Christine Jense & Mya Kramp, Wood County Adult Volunteers

You Be The Judge: Photography

Join in exploring the possibilities of photography in prints and beyond. You’ve taken great photos and now it’s time to prepare for an exhibition like the county fair. You might be asking yourself “what questions will the judge ask me?”, “Should I print my photos on my home printer?”, and “how else could I display my photos other than simply printed photos?”. Get these questions, and more, answered while also exploring the best printing options when sending photos to be printed and get creative when looking to share or preserve your photos instead of letting them sit in our digital folder/album, or phone, or memory card. (Optional: bring your printed photos to be reviewed by county fair judge, MaryBeth Wohlrabe.)

MaryBeth Wohlrabe, Outagamie County Positive Youth Development Educator

Youth Building Thriving Communities*

Participants will learn to identify what makes a community healthy and vibrant. Through mapping activities, they will identify the features in their community that make it strong and also what aspects of their community could be enhanced to make it stronger. This session will incorporate mapping activities and online resources that can be used to help build stronger communities across Wisconsin.

Neil Klemme, Iron County Positive Youth Development Educator; Todd Johnson, Land Use & Community Development Specialist

Zombie Apocalypse Escape Room

You're trying to survive the zombie apocalypse, and you must work with your fellow survivors to find the needed supplies to survive. We know you are all strong 4-Her’s, so good luck! See you on the other side.

Maria Zillges, Emily Groth, & Emma Wagner, WLC Members

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